THE REVERSE; ON THE View of some of my Friends remaining Comforts. Isaac Watts Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T82397 K067329.000 Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Horæ lyricæ: Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. ... By I. Watts. London Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence at the Sign of the Angel in the Poultrey. MDCCVI. 1706 pp. 164-166. [20],267,[1]p.; 8⁰.

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THE REVERSE ; ON THE View of some of my Friends remaining Comforts . I. THUS Nature tun'd her Mournful Tongue , Till Grace lift up her Head , Revers'd the Sorrow and the Song , And smiling thus she said . II . Were kindred Spirits born for Cares ? Must every Grief be mine ? Is there a Sympathy in Tears , And Joys refuse to Joyn ? III . Forbid it Heav'n , and raise my Love , And make our Joys the same : So Bliss and Friendship joyn'd above Mix an Immortal Flame . IV . Sorrows are lost in vast Delight That Brightens all the Soul , As Deluges of dawning Light O'rewhelm the Dusky Pole . V. Pleasures in long Succession reign And all my Powers Imploy : Friendship but shifts the pleasing Scene , And fresh repeats the Joy . VI . Life has a soft and silver Thread , Nor is it drawn too long , Yet when my vaster Hopes perswade I'me willing to be gone . VII . Fast as ye please roll down the Hill , And hast away , my Years ; Or I can wait my Father's Will , And dwell beneath the Spheres . VIII . Rise glorious every future Sun , And bright be all my Days , Till Death that brightest Moment come With well-distinguish't Rays .